Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-12-24

- ~ 1870 AhiNN G
stole one hundret thousand dollars by
the operation. Many Of The
MEN OF FORTUNE
made their wealth In that way. One
IF those men, engaged IN such Nm
righteous acts, that man thai even
ing Of the very day when he watered
the stock, will find "a wharf.rat stealing
a newspaper from the basement door
way, and will 60 out and catch the
urchin by the collar, and twist sc
tlghtly the poor fel ow cannot say it
wtS thirst for knowledge that led him
to the dishonest act, but grip the collar
tighter and tighter, saying, IL have
been looking for you II long while; you
stole my paper four or five times,
haven't youp you miserable wretch"
And then the old stock gambler, with
a voice they a hear three blocks,
will cry out Police, police!' That
same man, the evening of the day ne
watered the stock, will kpeel with his
family in prayers and thank God for
the prosperity of the day, then kiss his
children with an air which seems to
shy, II hope you will all grow up to
be as good as your father" Prisons
for sins insectile in size, but palaces
for crimes d%romedarian. No mercy
for sins animalcule in proportion, but
great l~eniency for
NAsTODON INIQUITY.
A poor boy slyly takes from the bas-
ket OF u market woman q choke pear
saving some one else from the cholera
and you smother him in the horrible
atmosphere Of Raymond Street jail or
New York tombs, while his cousin, who
has been skillful enough TO steal fifty
thousand dollars from the city, you viii
make him n candidate for the New
York legislature!
There is a great deal of upeasiness
and vousn 10Y among some peo-
pie in Our time who have gotten un-
righteous fortunes, "A great deal of ner-
vnu-ness about dynamite. | tell them
that God will put. under their upright
eous fortunes something more eXplo-
sive than dynamite, the earthquake OF
His omnipotent Indignation. Ii is time
that we learn III America that sin is not
.%xcusable ia proportion AS it declares
lrge dividends and has outriders in
eqnIpage. Mtny a man is
RIDING TO P%ERDITIoN,
position ahead and lack,y behind. To
steal one copy Of u ue"spaptr ls a
: gnat; to steai many thousands OF dol
bars !, a camel. Ther- is many a fruit
tester who would not consent To steal
. bass ct o. peaches from IA neighbours
stall. bat who Vouid not scrupie to de-.
pruss the fruit market; and 80 long rs
| can remember we have heard every
GUNNER the peach crop Of Maryland is
n ftiiure, and by the time the crop
c~m"s N the misrepresentation makes
Il difference of millions Of dollars. A
man wao would not steal one peach
basket steals fifty thousand peach US
krt-. Gro down in the summer time
INTO the Mercantile library, in the read
my ro0sS. and see the newspaper re-
ports al the crops from all parts of the
country. and their ~phraeeology 10 very
iatb lut 6llIlF, all tuc III III III
wrote them, methodically and imam
ouoly carrying out the huge lying about
the grain crop from year to year and
for n score OF years. After a while
there vii BE- a corner" in the wheat
market. and men WHO had a contempt
ior "A petty theft will burglarize the
wheat bin of a nation and commit lar
ceny upon the American corn crib
AID some of the men will sit in
churches and in rcformatory institu-
lions trying to strain out the small
gnats Of scoundrelism, while II their
| graia chvasore and their store houses
they sre tattaa;nC huge Camels which
they expect after IA while To swallow.
society has to be entirely reconstructed
on thi- subject. We are TO find that u
sin 10 ~iDexcusable in proportion as it is
great.
RELIGIOUS FRAUDS.
know in our time the tendency is
to charge religious frauds upon good
men. They say, .On, what n class Of
frauds you have In the church of God
in this day" and when al elder of a
church, or II deacon, or a minister OF
The gospel, or Il superintendent OF a
>abb< 18th school turns out ~ defaulter,
what display heads there are in many
ot the newspapers. Great primer type.
Five iue plea. Another Saint Alb
sconded," Clerical Scoundrelism,
Religion at IA Discount" Shame Oh
ne Churches while there are "A thou
s-nd sroundrels outside the church t.
where there is one inside the church
AID the mi-behavior of those who never
see the inside of a church is go grear /
j. enough to tempt q man To become :
Christian to get out of their company
Bat IN al ircies. religious and IRE
faious. the tendency is to c Fin II
prop rtIou rs it is mammoth. Ever
John Nj H. n IN his paradise Lost,
while h condemns SafaE. gives such
sra,d description ~ him YOU have har'
work 20 suppress your admiration. Or
{ is $ raining out of SIN ii sins Tx
gnats, ant this gu'ping down grca
iniqnittes like camels.
THE TEXT A
This subject does not give the piC
ture OF One or " persons, but Il
I Y l'ert in which thousands OF peopl